Staff Software Engineer - Frontend Web Platform KICK

• Own and evolve KICK’s web frontend platform architecture across React, Next.js, TypeScript, and the wider frontend ecosystem. - Write and ship high-quality production code, setting the standard for frontend engineering, testing, performance, and reliability. - Define the frontend platform strategy, technical direction, and long-term architecture in partnership with engineering, product, and design teams. - Establish and evolve standards, patterns, and best practices for frontend development across teams. - Own and improve frontend developer experience through shared tooling, libraries, documentation, and self-service capabilities. - Lead cross-team frontend initiatives from problem definition through delivery and adoption, using technical guidance, RFCs, documentation, code reviews, pairing, and shared architectural decisions. - Identify and remove systemic frontend bottlenecks, reliability risks, performance issues, accessibility gaps, and production failure modes across the product. - Mentor and support engineers across teams, helping raise frontend engineering quality, consistency, and ownership. - Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of technical context. Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. - 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong frontend focus

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript fundamentals, NextJS and TypeScript. - Experience with server-side rendering (SSR), modern frontend architecture, and testing frameworks

• Proven experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing frontend architecture. - Experience designing scalable systems, not just implementing features

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and deliver complex initiatives end-to-end. - Experience working in cross-team environments requiring alignment and standardisation. - Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across teams. - Ability to balance hands-on work with strategic leadership responsibilities. - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience setting up or leading a frontend platform or enablement function. - Experience delivering and maintaining high-traffic, large-scale web applications or frontend platforms. - Experience working effectively with distributed teams across multiple time zones, including asynchronous collaboration with offshore teams and significant time differences. Some of the perks of working for us:

• Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation. - Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Kafka, K8's, React, Next.js, Golang, ArgoCD, Datadog & Cloudflare. - Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency (3 Billion Requests per day!)

• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform

• EAP access for you and your family

• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses

• Give back with a paid volunteer day

• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house

• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays

• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs

• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays

• Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week

• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.